Taking Stock

Time for a little taking stock!

Making : a crochet cat blanket, in an effort to keep Peppie off the bed blanket [she would say it's her bed blanket].

Cooking : with my favourite little helper at my side, who always wants to stir the food. I love how interested in everything this boy is.

Drinking : coffee again, after almost two years away from it. I'm still having a stand off with the coffee machine though. I'm not caving in to the caffeine addiction that quickly. Yet.

Reading: a book about mindfulness and a book about photography and a book about a little bird, over and over for the little one.

Playing: pick up the peas with William. Seed peas, for the garden. They make a great shaker noise in the packet until the packet splits and they go everywhere.

Deciding: what to have for breakfast in the morning. 

Enjoying: rainy days. It's like the dry spell in summer never happened.

Waiting: for popcorn. 

Liking: the news of a new 'double j' radio station, for us old time triple j listeners who can't handle the sound of youth these days.

Loving: this series of posts on The Parenting Passageway. So calming and humbling and gentle.

Pondering: painting the house, and the disarray that it will entail.

Considering: a different course of study, a creative course…

Watching: rain drops falling on the deck; lettuce bolting; weeds emerging.

Hoping: that we can pull off a trip to Mount Buller on the weekend. 

Marvelling: at a 12 month old that has decided to start toilet training. Baby-led toilet training?

Needing: to fix a flat tyre on my bike, pronto. 

Smelling: popcorn popping.

Wearing: cooler weather clothes. Where on earth did summer go? It felt like it would never end, but it did, and now it's getting cool again. 

Following: Motley cat to the food bowl, repeatedly, as she refuses to eat unless we stand there with her. She's a princess.

Noticing: lots of little pea seedlings emerging in the garden, fully helped along with all this rain we're getting.

Knowing: that the important things are taken care of.

Thinking: about study… thinking and thinking and thinking again. Too much thinking actually.

Feeling: inspired to create things, lots of things, all of the things. Starting with a new beanie for my little boy, before the weekend. 

Admiring: Mothers of more than one child, and wondering how they actually do it. Any of it.

Sorting: the kitchen bench - what had become a dumping ground for bits of 'stuff' has been sorted to make space to the coffee machine once again… lucky we couldn't bring ourselves to get rid of it.

Buying: a beautiful Le Creuset mixing jug that we found on the weekend… beautiful, and part of the 'remove all plastic from the kitchen' program.

Getting: used to the changed season, and no more daylight savings. It's dark so early now! 

Disliking: the current Australian government. Very, very much.

Giggling: at toddler antics. The sweetest and most adorable little antics.

Snacking: on chocolate, mostly. And popcorn.

Dreaming: of a bowl of popcorn that never runs out. 

Wishing: we could have birthday cake all the time. 

Hearing: my husband crunching popcorn. The popcorn is here!

Thanks to Pip for the cue on this post. Seems I have food on the mind a lot..

What's been happening in your part of the world?